# רֵאשִׁית (reshit)

Israeli respelling: re-shit. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7225. 49 Old Testament occurrences.

the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)

King James renderings: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/reshit-h7225

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/1) — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- [Genesis 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/10) — And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- [Genesis 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/3) — Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- [Exodus 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/19) — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s m…
- [Exodus 34:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/26) — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s m…
- [Leviticus 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/2/12) — As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
- [Leviticus 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/10) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest there…
- [Numbers 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/20) — Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye h…
- [Numbers 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/21) — Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
- [Numbers 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/12) — All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them…
- [Numbers 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/20) — And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he pe…
- [Deuteronomy 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/12) — A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end…
- [Deuteronomy 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/18/4) — The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
- [Deuteronomy 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/17) — But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginnin…
- [Deuteronomy 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/2) — That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and…
- [Deuteronomy 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/10) — And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy G…
- [Deuteronomy 33:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/21) — And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the p…
- [1 Samuel 2:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/29) — Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make y…
- [1 Samuel 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/21) — But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the L…
- [2 Chronicles 31:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/5) — And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey,…
- [Nehemiah 10:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/37) — And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto th…
- [Nehemiah 12:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/44) — And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to ga…
- [Job 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/7) — Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
- [Job 40:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/19) — He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
- [Job 42:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/12) — So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thous…
- [Psalms 78:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/51) — And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
- [Psalms 105:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/36) — He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
- [Psalms 111:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/111/10) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
- [Proverbs 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/7) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- [Proverbs 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/9) — Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- [Proverbs 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/7) — Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
- [Proverbs 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/22) — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
- [Proverbs 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/14) — The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/8) — Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
- [Isaiah 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/10) — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will d…
- [Jeremiah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/3) — Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith…
- [Jeremiah 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/1) — In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
- [Jeremiah 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/1) — In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- [Jeremiah 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/28/1) — And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, tha…
- [Jeremiah 49:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/34) — The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
- [Jeremiah 49:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/35) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
- [Ezekiel 20:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/40) — For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in…
- [Ezekiel 44:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/30) — And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye s…
- [Ezekiel 48:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/14) — And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
- [Daniel 11:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/41) — He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and…
- [Hosea 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/10) — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalp…
- [Amos 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/1) — Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Isra…
- [Amos 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/6) — That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
- [Micah 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/13) — O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgr…